The Vigilon Voice distributed voice alarm system from Gent by Honeywell is a wall-mounted system that can meet the needs of the most complex site. It delivers high quality audio announcements, with full digital signal processing to ensure that messages are always intelligible.
Intelligible messages keep confusion and panic to a minimum. The system can be easily accommodated and configured, and it is said to have many advantages over a traditional rack mounted system.
Full integration of the Vigilon voice alarm system means that it shares the fault resilience design of the Vigilon fire alarm system. The distributed architecture means that amplifiers are sited at the point of delivery, and this saves on cable installation and improves power efficiency.
The modular approach makes it easier to expand or to modify if the building application or requirements change, explains the company, by adding extra distributed amplifier units to the fire loop. Using these units with locally stored messages means that even if the voice alarm network fails, emergency messages are still delivered throughout the whole system.
The user interface for the distributed amplifier unit and the fire detection system itself is shared, so all functions can be performed centrally. And by using Vigilon’s loop interfaces, the units are configured into the fire plan in the same way as sounders.
